Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bezobrazov was an army officer and

aviator An aircraft pilot or aviator is a person who controls the flight of an aircraft by operating its Aircraft flight control system, directional flight controls. Some other aircrew, aircrew members, such as navigators or flight engineers, are al ...

of the Imperial Russian Air Force who constructed an experimental

fighter aircraft Fighter aircraft are fixed-wing military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat. In military conflict, the role of fighter aircraft is to establish air superiority of the battlespace. Domination of the airspace above a battlefield ...

design in 1914. The type was a single-seat triplane on which the wings had an extreme stagger—the upper wing was well forward of the fuselage while the middle set was centrally located and the bottom set nearly under the tail section. Initial power plant was a 60 hp Anzani, but this was later upgraded to an 80 hp Gnome-Rhone. First flight was on 2 October 1914 at the hands of Bezobrazov's assistant, F. E. Moska, and the aircraft was flown later in Sevastopol, but it was never put into production.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bezobrazov, Aleksandr Aircraft manufacturers of Russia 20th-century Russian inventors Russian aerospace engineers Year of birth missing Year of death missing